The rhythm and melody of the trip and it is impossible to look the other way, when it is not only professional ethics to be called in helping others.
There is so much love, so much poetry and a lot of Africa, "Anatomy of the trip," atypical "logbook" of the Italian doctor Crescenzo D'Onofrio, including frescoes by Nature, introspective, lyrical evocations and the harsh reality of poverty, non-existent health and wars.
D'Onofrio has traveled the world by means of his profession, but above all collaborating with missions and NGOs not only on the African continent. He then lived and worked for seven years as a plastic surgeon in Nairobi, creating in 2006 the first plastic and reconstructive surgery unit at Karen Hospital and teaching the Aga Khan University.
Still often he visits the Kenyan coast.
Among all third worlds and lived with hugs and bites the doctor-writer, sub-Saharan Africa is one that, among the thousands of human stories and experiences of volunteering and solidarity, gives the feeling of eternal beauty of the area, which It stands on human misery.
So opens the African adventure of D'Onofrio.
"Africa! Finally Africa! Boundless expanses, painted and sculpted by the hand of God. Cashews majestic, plants cassava, palm trees, papayas, and then mangroves, acacias, baobabs, cotton crops, offered to the look in quick succession, interspersed here and there with bizarre rock forms . A predominant nature
and mistress, barely scratched by huts and villlaggi. The land, a characteristic red color, stands out forcefully and effectively through the plant. "
It 'a journey through the arretratissimo Mozambique, the majestic Kenya, Senegal and a battered Sierra Leone (where the doctor has coordinated the Unicef ​​project for the removal of child soldiers War tattoos). A dance between sets now charming, now tragic, where the Maasai Mara offers its endless expanses and recalls the romantic descriptions of Karen Blixen, but also shiny remarks by Alberto Moravia, to which Kenya is beginning to love from above , down from its clouds.
Even for the Roman surgeon, who is also passionate anthropology following the passionate research of David Leakey, Kenya has the ancestral magnet cradle of humanity and, despite the work and passion of help to the helpless did roll like stone in other remote corners of the globe, his dancing life, passionate and full of mixed feelings, always brings him back to Africa.
Because, as he himself states, the journey the bravest mode to take her in his arms his own life and make it dance to an unknown rhythm first, then more and more familiar and overwhelming. The rate of which many of us can not do without.
"The trip is a way, a means to access the rhythm by moving
physical. The rocking motion of the active cells way, it enters
in resonance with larger universes. The rhythm is the essence of travel, the vibration that makes it alive, still fulfilling: it is the gateway to other dimensions. But the causes that lead to look for are varied. The restlessness, dissatisfaction, the desire to escape,
are just some of the possible symptoms of the greatest evil that is genetic, it is the human condition itself, the need, inscribed in the cells, in DNA, to fully carry out the biological Trace, Research, the Way. "
Words of a true investigator of the human soul and the earth ground.
"Anatomy of the Journey" is a free download in Italian from ITUNES iBooks.